Bob Heironimus
The only reason you may know about Bob Heironimus is because Roger Patterson filmed Patty the female Bigfoot in October of 1967 in upper Northern California.
Bob has stirred up a lot of controversy over the years because of his claims to have been involved.
The truth is, there’s no connection between Bob Heironimus and the Patterson-Gimlin film clip or Bluff Creek. beyond loaning Roger one his quarter horses. Bob was an associate of Roger’s and felt that he was due a share of the profits. The problem was, there were no profits to be had.
Undeterred, Bob stumbled into giving interviews which led him to discuss details of the Patterson-Gimlin Film that he did not prepare himself for. Just about everything Bob has said on the subject is inconsistent and inaccurate.
For some reason, there are people who think he really was Patty in a technically modified costume designed as a hoax.
Bigfoot skeptics are generally smarter than buying into Bob’s poor knowledge of the event. bn my view, the real root of the skepticism is some people just don’t want to consider Patty as genuine. Skeptics look for excuses, not reasonable clues. It so happened, Bob is in the 6’3″ or 6″4 range which supports the idea that Bob could have been Patty in a suit. Bob Heironimus is an excuse to dispute Patty’s existence.
There is also a personal reason in some cases. Some people just didn’t like Roger, even members of his own family.
Roger was broke and obsessed with Bigfoot, and ran into financial problems which forced him to be creative with finding income. He did not have the expertise or ability to hoax Patty or hire anyone. As a Bigfoot investigator, he was actually respected by his peers such as John W. Green. Everything Roger did was in the interest of his own Bigfoot investigation.
Roger’s mission in October 1967 was to investigate tracks found a few months prior. He found out about the tracks by way of Al Hodgson, general store owner in Willow Creek, the nearest town from Bluff Creek which is a wilderness area.
Due to Als tip, Roger knew exactly where to find the tracks which turned out to be washed out due to recent rains and foot traffic. There were several bigfoot investigators in that same area before Roger and Bob Gimlin arrived. Wes Summerlin, Bob Titmus, as well as Syl McCoy, a local forest service employee who was Al Hodgson’s right hand man to acquire direct information about new findings such as suspected Bigfoot tracks in the the area. .
No doubt on credit he did not have, Roger convinced Bob Gimlin to drive his 1960s or possibly earlier model pickup truck and low suspension horse trailer from Yakima to Bluff Creek. Bob Gimlin had a lot of experience driving trucks. Bob Heironimus would have had to have equal skills and drove a separate vehicle, getting to a place he had never been before and allegedly meet up with Roger and Bob.
Bob Heironimus the Fake PGF Witness
Bob Heironimus did not make himself known to Al Hodgson, Syl McCoy or anyone in Willow Creek. No gas stations, no food supply, no firewood, horse feed, and so on. Supposedly the group camped out in the woods with their horses and bedrolls, happy to dine on coffee and beans for 3 weeks, wandering around the rough terrain on quarter horses. If Bob was there to make a hoax, why would it take 3 weeks to make a clumsy barely 1 minute film?
The truth is Bob Heironimus was an extraordinarily inept, fake witness to the Patterson-Gimlin Film. He never had access to a suit nor could he ever come up with a plausible explanation of its complexities.